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<p>These documents describe aspects of Qt's architecture and design, including overviews of core Qt features and technologies.</p>
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<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="dnd.html">Drag and Drop</a></th><td>An overview of the drag and drop system provided by Qt.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="eventsandfilters.html">Events and Event Filters</a></th><td>A guide to event handling in Qt.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="datastreamformat.html">Format of the QDataStream Operators</a></th><td>Representations of data types that can be serialized by QDataStream.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="qtalgorithms.html">Generic Algorithms</a></th><td>The &lt;QtAlgorithms&gt; header provides generic template-based algorithms.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="containers.html">Generic Containers</a></th><td>Qt's template-based container classes.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="qtglobal.html">Global Qt Declarations</a></th><td>The &lt;QtGlobal&gt; header provides basic declarations and is included by all other Qt headers.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="atomic-operations.html">Implementing Atomic Operations</a></th><td>A guide to implementing atomic operations on new architectures.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="style-reference.html">Implementing Styles and Style Aware Widgets</a></th><td>An overview of styles and the styling of widgets.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="shared.html">Implicitly Shared Classes</a></th><td>Classes that use reference counting for fast copying.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="intro-to-dbus.html">Introduction to D-Bus</a></th><td>An introduction to Inter-Process Communication and Remote Procedure Calling with D-Bus.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="focus.html">Keyboard Focus</a></th><td>An overview of the keyboard focus management and handling.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="layout.html">Layout Classes</a></th><td>A tour of the standard layout managers and an introduction to custom layouts.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="metaobjects.html">Meta-Object System</a></th><td>An overview of Qt's meta-object system and introspection capabilities.  Qt's meta-object system provides the signals and slots mechanism for inter-object communication, run-time type information, and the dynamic property system.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="model-view-programming.html">Model/View Programming</a></th><td>A guide to the extensible model/view architecture used by Qt's item view classes.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="objecttrees.html">Object Trees and Object Ownership</a></th><td>Information about the parent-child pattern used to describe object ownership in Qt.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="qundo.html">Overview of Qt's Undo Framework</a></th><td></td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="qtestlib-manual.html">QTestLib Manual</a></th><td>An overview of Qt's unit testing framework.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="object.html">Qt Object Model</a></th><td>A description of the powerful features made possible by Qt's dynamic object model.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="stylesheet.html">Qt Style Sheets</a></th><td>How to use style sheets to customize the appearance of widgets.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="properties.html">Qt's Property System</a></th><td>An overview of Qt's property system.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="richtext.html">Rich Text Processing</a></th><td>An overview of Qt's rich text processing, editing and display features.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="sql-driver.html">SQL Database Drivers</a></th><td>How to configure and install QtSql drivers for supported databases.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="signalsandslots.html">Signals and Slots</a></th><td>An overview of Qt's signals and slots inter-object communication mechanism.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="coordsys.html">The Coordinate System</a></th><td>Information about the coordinate system used by the paint system.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="graphicsview.html">The Graphics View Framework</a></th><td>An overview of the Graphics View framework for interactive 2D graphics.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="threads.html">Thread Support in Qt</a></th><td>A detailed discussion of thread handling in Qt.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="timers.html">Timers</a></th><td>How to use timers in your application.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="unicode.html">Unicode</a></th><td>Information about support for Unicode in Qt.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="odd"><th><a href="templates.html">Why Doesn't Qt Use Templates for Signals and Slots?</a></th><td>The reasoning behind Qt's implementation of signals and slots.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top" class="even"><th><a href="geometry.html">Window Geometry</a></th><td>An overview of window geometry handling and management.</td></tr>
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